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« on: 02 July 2014, 16:11:55 »
Having a devil of a time with my V6 (Y26SE engine) and an oil leak on the passengers side (rear of engine) that is dripping onto the exhaust and causing a lot of smoke.
The local garage at first diagnosed a warped CAM cover and CAM covers for both sides were changed (along with fouled DIS pack on the passengers side.) Engine steam cleaned so no residual oil - engine starts to smoke again and so another trip to the garage. Queried them about the breathers and they informed me they had cleaned them and that the issue was the head gasket. Decided to have the work done (including the timing belt at the same time), after a rather long time whilst the mechanic got the engine back together (another saga of timing issues) the oil leak is back. Latest view of the garage is that the heads need to be skimmed and they are dropping it off at the local engineering shop to do so.
My query is whether with cleaned breathers, new CAM covers, new HG it is reasonable to point an on going leak at needing to skim the heads? Could we be looking at a cracked block here?
Any thoughts welcome as this is saga is doing my brain in.
